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Related: About this forumNYT - How the Republicans Built it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/opinion/how-the-republicans-built-it.html?_r=1It was a day late, but the Republicans parade of truth-twisting, distortions and plain falsehoods arrived on the podium of their national convention on Tuesday. Following in the footsteps of Mitt Romneys campaign, rarely have so many convention speeches been based on such shaky foundations.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, in the keynote speech, angrily demanded that the American people learn the hard truths about the two parties, but like most of those at the microphone, he failed to supply any. He said his state needed his austere discipline of slashed budgets, canceled public projects and broken public unions, but did not mention that New Jersey now has a higher unemployment rate than when he took over, and never had the revenue boom he promised from tax cuts.
We believe in telling our seniors the truth about our overburdened entitlements, he said, but his party has consistently refused to come clean about its real plans to undo Medicare and Medicaid. Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on a path to growth, he said, but Mr. Romney has consistently refused to tell the truth about his tax plan, his budget plan, and his health care plan.
It was appropriate that We built it, the needling slogan of the evening, was painted on the side of the convention hall. Speaker after speaker alluded to the phrase in an entire day based on the thinnest of reeds a poorly phrased remark by the president, deliberately taken out of context. President Obama was making the obvious point that all businesses rely to some extent on the work and services of government. But Mr. Romney has twisted it to suggest that Mr. Obama believes all businesses are creatures of the government, and so the convention had to parrot the line."
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NYT - How the Republicans Built it. (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2012
OP
Flatpicker
(894 posts)1. This year
The Republican slogan should be "We shovel it."
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)2. They don't detail their plans
because they don't work, are unpopular and specifically enrich the top 2% and harm the large majority of the working class.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)4. Stop making the "job creators" pay taxes and you won't have to pay for your kid's football uniform.